Rolling Stone‘s ‘True Blood’ Cover Continues A Legacy Of Naked Stars

Posted 08/18/2010 10:30:23 am
by Kyle Anderson.

The ultra-sexy, somewhat disturbing cover of Rolling Stone featuring the nude, bloody stars of “True Blood” hits newsstands today, and like any ultra-sexy magazine cover, it’s sending shockwaves and grabbing headlines. The image on the cover features very little copy along with “True Blood” stars Anna Paquin, Alexander Skarsgard and Stephen Moyer covered in little more than grimaces and fake blood.

It’s not the first time somebody has shown up on the cover of Rolling Stone in a birthday suit. In fact, Stone has matched Vanity Fair blow-for-blow as the go-to magazine when stars want to get their gear off. Their cup of bare flesh runneth over, but here are the five greatest moments in Rolling Stone‘s long, nude history.

Lady Gaga
Though she recently appeared on the cover of the magazine mostly naked (save for a complicated machine gun bra), Gaga’s first cameo on the cover of Rolling Stone featured the singer clad in little more than some well-placed bubbles.

Red Hot Chili Peppers
While the men of RHCP have never been strangers to taking off their clothes, but they took it all off for a cover that featured little more than their smiles and their strategically-placed hands covering their junk. It should also be noted that there are only three of them on the cover because they were in between guitarists (as they typically are).

Christina Aguilera
What do you get when you cross an edgy pop star with a pair of boots, a guitar and nothing else at all? Greatness.